Neil Young's Ride Gets Pimped

"Neil likes to call it the ‘Thinkin’ Lincoln'"

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Neil Young sitting on his Lincoln Continental in 1994 in Woodside, California. Through Young's efforts, in part, it's now part of the Lincvolt project to make it into an eco-friendly, fuel-efficient car.

Updated at 1:59 PM EST on Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009

Neil Young's 1959 Lincoln Continental used to be a gas guzzler, but now it's being transformed into something cleaner by a Virginia robotics company.

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But it was Perrone's firm, which started working on the project last year, that gave the car its "brain" -- or the software which monitors the car's data, including its location, fuel level, efficiency and battery charge, according to The Daily Progress.

Perrone’s company is also working on technology to make the most of the car’s efficiency. According to The Daily Progress, the software will analyze a trip’s route and then calculate how to best maximize efficiency based on speed, topography, the timing of traffic lights and more -- kind-of like a super GPS, Goodwin said.

While there is no set date for the completion of the project, which could turn the Continental into a 100-mpg car, a test run has been set for Nov. 1. That's when the Lincvolt makes it first trip, rockin' nonstop from San Francisco to Las Vegas.